IBM Adds POWER9 AIO, Pushes for an Open Memory-Agnostic Interface

Re:IBM Adds POWER9 AIO, Pushes for an Open Memory-Agnostic I... by baybal2 on Monday November 04, 2019 @12:49PM (#21444194)

10 years ago, when AMD moved high speed memory controller to the CPU, it was lauded the best thing since the sliced bread.

Now, 10 years later, we again move memory controller off the CPU.

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Re:IBM Adds POWER9 AIO, Pushes for an Open Memory-Agnostic I... by rbanffy on Monday November 04, 2019 @01:22PM (#21444610)

Things change. What made sense 10 years ago in PCs and midrange x86 servers doesn't currently make much sense on the higher end of the POWER9 spectrum.

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Re:IBM Adds POWER9 AIO, Pushes for an Open Memory-Agnostic I... by convolvatron on Monday November 04, 2019 @04:50PM (#21446888)

really only because one company has a patent portfolio sitting on the entire notion of dram asynch serial interfaces. i think* those should start expiring soon

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